Four students, bus driver injured in crash

Published 3:22 pm, Friday, December 10, 2010

San Antonio fire and police officials investigate a bus crash that injured the driver and four students Friday morning. (Bob Owen, rowen@express-news.net)

San Antonio fire and police officials investigate a bus crash that injured the driver and four students Friday morning. (Bob Owen, rowen@express-news.net)

Four students, bus driver injured in crash

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Four students and a school bus driver were injured when a bus tire blew out, causing the driver to crash into a concrete barrier northwest of downtown Friday morning, officials said.

Around 7:45 a.m., the driver of a Higgs, Carter, King Charter School bus carrying 18 students slammed into a barrier on the westbound lanes of Interstate 10 near Cincinnati Avenue, according to San Antonio police and school officials.

Principal Claudette Yarbrough said the bus was en route to the charter school's pre-kindergarten through 12th-grade campus, at 511 Fredericksburg Road, when the crash occurred.

Four students busted their lips in the incident, Yarbrough said, and the bus driver was complaining of chest pains. All five were hospitalized, Yarbrough said, and another bus took the rest of the students to school.

“Some of these kids were shaken up, obviously; it's an accident,” she said. “But there are a lot worse things happening in the world than a busted lip.”